Edward the Elder

Edward "the Elder" (874-17 July 924), also known as Eadward "the Old", was the king of Wessex from 899 to 924, succeeding Alfred the Great and preceding Aethelstan of England.

== Biography =

Edward (also known as Eadward) was born in 874 to the Anglo-Saxon Catholic House of Wessex, and his court was at Winchester. He succeeded his father Alfred the Great as king of Wessex in 899, and under his rule, he took London and Oxford in 911 and Midlands and East Anglia from Jorvik in 917, and in 918 he became the king of Mercia after the death of his sister Aethelflaed of Mercia. When he died in 924, he was succeeded by his son Aethelstan of England.